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- noun The
cardinal number aftertwenty-two and beforetwenty-four .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being three more than twenty
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one
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Examples
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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The referees called twenty-three fouls on Shelbyville—a final-game record—and sixteen on Terre Haute Garfield.
Getting Open Tom Graham 2006
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Justice Kennedy was in the majority 92 percent of the time, including in eighteen of twenty-three 5–4 cases, more than any other justice.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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In its most recent term, October Term 2008, there were seventy-five decisions and twenty-three were decided by a 5–4 margin.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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In the same legislative package, Reagan successfully gained passage of twenty-three other “anti-crime” bills.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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They have documented twenty-three of these cases where innocent people were executed by the state.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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